I can stand a few more years of being bad if we can secure a future of this franchise in this town for the future. Oakland is where this team belongs and the city and the club need to get this done. Imagine Sonny throwing out the first pitch of opening day 2018 in a new ballpark and then going on to win the World Series.

That will never happen with all of the scrap yards out there. Cleaning out all of that mess would cost millions before anything could be done. We can have a rival AT&T park with a stadium next to Oakland International, the view of the hills are that amazing. We don't need an expensive pier to overhaul when we have all the land in the world at the Coliseum site, it could even fit two new stadiums.

Plus if the port of oakland develops the land around the stadium into office complexes and malls, it may attract more tech to come to oakland and give it revenue. That indirectly affects the a's but it sure would make the coliseum site a whole lot more attractive.

It's already happening in North and West Oakland. Just need to wait a few more months until the new Mayor authorizes eminent domain in the other parts. Something that Oakland has historically fought against to "preserve" the African American community, now they're the ones asking for remodeling and bulldozing.

Can't wait to see how far Oakland will change in 5 years. JLS is basically the perfect example of this, 5 years is night and day for JLS. I hardly recognize the old factories anymore with all the new art galleys and restaurants renting them out. Some are evening building completely new facilities.

LOL no. The residents of thlose areas are not asking to forcibly leave their homes. They're not asking for landlords to jack up their rent so that they can't live there anymore. They are asking to have the neighborhood improved at the expense of the people already who live there. They're not asking for any of that. It's going to happen, and that is sad, but trust me. They're not asking for it.

My aunt used to work high up in the city of Oakland. She said since day one of the Raiders coming back that Al wanted the A's gone, he did not want to compete with them. He was one of the driving forces of trying to get the Schott and co to move to Vegas, he was the one who suggested they start that year in Vegas when the construction was still going on to update the stadium to accommodate the Raiders.

The fact someone is both an A's fan and a Raiders fan makes no sense to me, since the Raiders do not want to share a city with the A's.

When they leave, which I am really hoping they do, the A's will get the green light.

Schaff knows the A's are more important, bring in more money, and can actually help the city. The Raiders are just leaches. When the Raiders leave A's fans should be partying.

I wish we heard it mentioned more often how many more games a baseball team offers a community than a football team. It seems that there must be much more potential earnings with a baseball team. If Oakland can only keep one, they need to keep the A's!

About damn time!!! Hopefully this commissioner isn't afraid to look at new ownership now that Lew's ol frat bro Selig is gone. We need owners committed to the team, the fan's are... now we need to build.